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Thursday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Including CD of the Week: Anne Queffelec in Scarlatti piano sonatas; Artist of the Week: violinist David Oistrakh; Rob's Essential Choice: Berlioz: Harold in Italy.

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Anne Queff茅lec playing Scarlatti Sonatas. WARNER APEX 0927 44353 2

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, violinist, David Oistrakh.

10.30am
Rob Cowan's guest is Miranda Krestovnikoff. She studied zoology at Bristol University, and from 1998 has appeared in very popular TV programmes on wildlife conservation and the environment, including The One Show, Coast and Countryfile. A keen musician, she spends a lot of her spare time making music. She plays the flute, bassoon, piano and recorders, and also sings. She currently plays with the New Bristol Sinfonia, and in 1994 she formed her own a cappella choir, Partsong, which she directed for eight years.

11am
Rob's Essential Choice

Berlioz: Harold in Italy, Op 16
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
Rudolph Barshai (viola)
David Oistrakh (conductor)
MELODIYA MEL CD 10 01955.

3 hours

Last on

Thu 6 Sep 2012 09:00

Music Played

  • Paul Dubois

    Spirituoso 鈥 3rd movement of Saxophone Quartet

    Performers: Deffayet Saxophone Quartet

    • EMI 572 360 2.
  • 9.02 [00鈥02鈥漖: ROB'S ESSENTIAL CD OF THE WEEK

    • Domenico Scarlatti

      Sonata in C sharp minor, L.256 K.247

      Performers: Anne Queff茅lec (piano)

      • APEX 0927 44353 2.
  • Edward Elgar

    Froissart: Concert Overture Op. 19

    Performers: New Philharmonia Orchestra, John Barbirolli (conductor)

    • EMI CDM 566 323 2.
  • Bohuslav Martin暖

    Sonata for flute and piano

  • 9.22 [00鈥22鈥漖:

    • Morley

      Mounsier's Almaine (Byrd); Lavolto (Morley); La Coranta (Morley)

      Performers: The Early Music Consort of London, David Munrow (director)

      • TESTAMENT SBT 1080.
  • 9.31 [00鈥31鈥漖:

    • Johann Joachim Quantz

      Trio sonata for recorder, flute and continuo in C major

      Performers: Camerata K枚ln

      • DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI 05472774382.
  • 9.43 [00鈥43鈥漖: ARTIST OF THE WEEK - DAVID OISTRAKH

    • Maurice Ravel

      Tzigane 鈥 Rhapsody

      Performers: David Oistrakh (violin), Vladimir Yampolsky (piano)

      • PRAGA PR254016.
  • Byrd arr. J.E. Borland (1907)

    Fantasia in C

    Performers: Annie Lydford (organ of Worksop College Chapel)

    • DELPHIAN DCD34104.
  • 10鈥02 [01鈥02鈥漖:

    • Today鈥檚 Brainteaser Answers

      What am I?

      Performers: Details of the music related to today鈥檚 brainteaser will appear on this page at 12pm. The answer will appear at the bottom of the page.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Nocturne

    Performers: Stephen Hough (piano)

    • EMI CDM 567 429 2.
  • Whitlock

    O living Bread, who once didst die

    Performers: Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, Geoffrey Webber (director)

    • DELPHIAN DCD34104.
  • 10.11 [01鈥11鈥漖: ARTIST OF THE WEEK - DAVID OISTRAKH

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Concerto in D minor for 2 violins, BWV 1043

      Performers: David & Igor Oistrakh (violins), Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Franz Konwitschny (conductor)

      • BERLIN CLASSICS BC 2130 2.
  • 10.30 [01鈥30鈥漖: Miranda Krestovnikoff's Choices

    • Martinu

      Sonata for flute and piano

      Performers: Susan Milan (flute), Ian Brown (piano)

      • CHANDOS CHAN 8823.
  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    Beati quorum via (No. 2 of Three Motets Op. 38)

    Performers: Choir of King鈥檚 College Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury (director)

    • EMI CDC 555 535 2.
  • 11.00 [02鈥00鈥漖: Rob's Essential Choice

    • Hector Berlioz

      Harold in Italy, Op. 16

      Performers: Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Rudolph Barshai (viola), David Oistrakh (conductor)

      • MELODIYA MEL CD 10 01955.
  • 11.43 [02鈥43鈥漖:

    • Joseph Haydn

      Piano Sonata in G, Hob. XVI:40

      Performers: Alfred Brendel (piano)

      • PHILIPS 456 727 2.
  • Anon.

    Our guest this week is Miranda Krestovnikoff

  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    Beati quorum via

  • Anon.

    Our guest this week is Miranda Krestovnikoff

  • Hector Berlioz

    Harold in Italy Op. 16

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata in G, Hob. XVI:40

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  • Thu 6 Sep 2012 09:00

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